Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)

Rabbit, Run kinda sucked. The rest of the Rabbit cycle is about as fantastic as writing can be. Rabbit is funny, honest, and cruel. These books portray one quintessentially American life, reflecting the 50's conservatism and hopefulness, the 60's unrest, the 70's scare and the 80's relief. If I were to fault Updike, it would be for making characters go thru a cliche experiences -...more

Rabbit, Run kinda sucked. The rest of the Rabbit cycle is about as fantastic as writing can be. Rabbit is funny, honest, and cruel. These books portray one quintessentially American life, reflecting the 50's conservatism and hopefulness, the 60's unrest, the 70's scare and the 80's relief. If I were to fault Updike, it would be for making characters go thru a cliche experiences - skeeter's radical afro-american philosophy, Nelson's cocaine addiction. What Updike does best is to write about marriage and affairs, and he is awesome here.   hide

Love, love, love this series. Totally depressing but great.

Rabbit Run still stays with me years after I read it.

Updike creates the most beautiful similes in literature.

There is only one other series of books that have won the Pulitzer twice. These four books follow an average man through the course of his very American life. This is the beauty of reading John Updike. You are reading about very ordinary persons, but with the luxuary of the most extrodinary prose.

Just started these...so amazing.

One of the best American authors ever, let alone of out time, and these are his classics. I consider them must reads in my teaching and in my personal life. Each book brilliant in its own way, and you will want to read everything he's ever written by the time you are done.

Ever been north Of Port Chester on Route 95? It's all there...

Wow, great anti-hero stuff. Rabbit Angstrom is disgusting and perverted, but somehow thinks he's ok with God. He's not, but I think it portrays the avg. Western man's view of himself.